tips on mitigating risks for fermented dill pickles

22 September 2008

I posted a few weeks ago about the tested and food-safe recipe for kosher-style dill pickles that my Master Food …

safe kosher-style dill pickles: fermented and non-fermented

26 August 2008

This post contains two recipes: (1) a tested recipe for vinegar pickles, which are canned immediately and therefore called “Quick …

24 August 2008

Yesterday’s “Preserving and Cooking Green” class went really well, and now I’m even more excited about the upcoming “Tomato Tango” …

18 July 2008

I once had a boyfriend who was so desperate for pickles, he’d even drink a jar of pickle juice. I …

4 June 2008

I’m now an extremely proud Master Food Preserver! Our eight-week course through Lane County OSU Extension for volunteer certification in …

30 May 2008

I’ve started in with the hooligans over at the Mid-Willamette Valley Eat Local Challenge, representing the South Valley, an emissary …

22 May 2008

It’s flowering flowery flower time in the Willamette Valley. The rhododendrons in Eugene are always spectacular, but this year, with …

30 March 2008

Pickle is such a great word. I love its air of transformation, its fortitude. It defies the odds. A pickle …

28 March 2008

My first college roommate was a kooky vegetarian save the world hippy-type who is now a kooky vegetarian save the …